ChargeDesk

ChargeDesk is a payment management portal providing a REST API for creating and managing charges, subscriptions, refunds, and customer billing across Stripe, Braintree, PayPal, Authorize.Net, WooCommerce, Shopify, Square, GoCardless, and 14+ other payment gateways. It integrates directly with helpdesk platforms including Zendesk, Freshdesk, Intercom, HubSpot, Help Scout, and Front, enabling support teams to handle billing operations without leaving their customer support workflow.

ChargeDesk publishes 7 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Charges API, Customers API, Gateway API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Payments, Billing, Subscription, Charges, and Refunds.

The ChargeDesk catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

ChargeDesk’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 12 more developer resources.

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33.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Front door AI 2/6 trace Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

Payments Billing Subscription Charges Refunds Customer Management Payment GatewayHelpdesk IntegrationREST API

What this lets a business do 4

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Subscription Lifecycle Management

BC-4240

Subscriptions

POST /subscriptions POST /subscriptions/{subscription_id}

Customer Relationship Management

BC-420

Customers

GET /customers POST /customers GET /customers/grouped

Subscription Billing & Revenue Management

BC-4250

Gateway

POST /gateway/products/charge POST /gateway/charges/{charge_id}/refund POST /gateway/charges/{charge_id}/capture

Developer Platform & API Ecosystem Management

BC-4270

Webhooks

GET /webhooks POST /webhooks DELETE /webhooks/{webhook_id}

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 33.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 15

Access Clarity 2.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 3.1 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 23.8 — up to +15.2 composite points
Contract Quality scores 56.4 — up to +10.9 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Commerce Platform Ecosystems (Shopify, WooCommerce, Stripe Apps)	builds-on	33.8	-	-
Stripe App Marketplace and Partner Ecosystem (builders on Stripe)	builds-on	33.8	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 7

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

ChargeDesk REST API

RESTful API for managing charges, customers, subscriptions, products, and webhooks across multiple payment gateways. Supports creating and capturing charges, processing refunds,...

ChargeDesk Charges API

Manage charge records across payment gateways

ChargeDesk Customers API

Manage customer billing records

ChargeDesk Gateway API

Live payment processing operations

ChargeDesk Products API

Manage products and pricing plans

ChargeDesk Subscriptions API

Manage recurring subscriptions

ChargeDesk Webhooks API

Manage webhook configurations

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Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

ChargeDesk REST Charges API

OPEN COLLECTION

ChargeDesk REST Charges Customers API

OPEN COLLECTION

ChargeDesk REST Charges Gateway API

OPEN COLLECTION

ChargeDesk REST Charges Products API

OPEN COLLECTION

ChargeDesk REST Charges Subscriptions API

OPEN COLLECTION

ChargeDesk REST Charges Webhooks API

OPEN COLLECTION

ChargeDesk API pricing

Not yet checked against ChargeDesk's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Hobby	$29
Startup	$99
Business	$249
Enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Chargedesk Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Chargedesk Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

ChargeDesk

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Chargedesk Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Chargedesk Context

2 classes · 52 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

ChargeDesk — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Charge

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Customer

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Product

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Subscription

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 6

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Create Charge

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Gateway Create Charge

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Gateway Create Subscription

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Gateway Refund Charge

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Gateway Request Payment

4 fields

EXAMPLE

List Charges

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Chargedesk Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Chargedesk Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Chargedesk Vulnerability Disclosure

no policy recorded

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Chargedesk Agentic Access

31 operations · 19 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: chargedesk
name: ChargeDesk
description: 'ChargeDesk is a payment management portal providing a REST API for creating and managing charges, subscriptions,
  refunds, and customer billing across Stripe, Braintree, PayPal, Authorize.Net, WooCommerce, Shopify, Square, GoCardless,
  and 14+ other payment gateways. It integrates directly with helpdesk platforms including Zendesk, Freshdesk, Intercom, HubSpot,
  Help Scout, and Front, enabling support teams to handle billing operations without leaving their customer support workflow.

  '
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/chargedesk.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chargedesk/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Payments
- Billing
- Subscription
- Charges
- Refunds
- Customer Management
- Payment Gateway
- Helpdesk Integration
- REST API
tags_raw:
- Payments
- Billing
- Subscriptions
- Charges
- Refunds
- Customer Management
- Payment Gateway
- Helpdesk Integration
- REST API
apis:
- name: ChargeDesk REST API
  description: 'RESTful API for managing charges, customers, subscriptions, products, and webhooks across multiple payment
    gateways. Supports creating and capturing charges, processing refunds, cancelling subscriptions, requesting payments,
    and managing customer data. Base URL is https://api.chargedesk.com/v1.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://chargedesk.com/api-docs
  baseURL: https://api.chargedesk.com/v1
  tags:
  - Payments
  - Charges
  - Subscription
  - Refunds
  - Customers
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Payments
  - Charges
  - Subscriptions
  - Refunds
  - Customers
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://chargedesk.com/api-docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://chargedesk.com/api-docs
- aid: chargedesk:chargedesk-charges-api
  name: ChargeDesk Charges API
  description: Manage charge records across payment gateways
  humanURL: https://chargedesk.com/api-docs
  baseURL: https://api.chargedesk.com/v1
  tags:
  - Charges
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chargedesk-charges-api-openapi.yml
- aid: chargedesk:chargedesk-customers-api
  name: ChargeDesk Customers API
  description: Manage customer billing records
  humanURL: https://chargedesk.com/api-docs
  baseURL: https://api.chargedesk.com/v1
  tags:
  - Customers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chargedesk-customers-api-openapi.yml
- aid: chargedesk:chargedesk-gateway-api
  name: ChargeDesk Gateway API
  description: Live payment processing operations
  humanURL: https://chargedesk.com/api-docs
  baseURL: https://api.chargedesk.com/v1
  tags:
  - Gateways
  tags_raw:
  - Gateway
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chargedesk-gateway-api-openapi.yml
- aid: chargedesk:chargedesk-products-api
  name: ChargeDesk Products API
  description: Manage products and pricing plans
  humanURL: https://chargedesk.com/api-docs
  baseURL: https://api.chargedesk.com/v1
  tags:
  - Product
  tags_raw:
  - Products
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chargedesk-products-api-openapi.yml
- aid: chargedesk:chargedesk-subscriptions-api
  name: ChargeDesk Subscriptions API
  description: Manage recurring subscriptions
  humanURL: https://chargedesk.com/api-docs
  baseURL: https://api.chargedesk.com/v1
  tags:
  - Subscription
  tags_raw:
  - Subscriptions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chargedesk-subscriptions-api-openapi.yml
- aid: chargedesk:chargedesk-webhooks-api
  name: ChargeDesk Webhooks API
  description: Manage webhook configurations
  humanURL: https://chargedesk.com/api-docs
  baseURL: https://api.chargedesk.com/v1
  tags:
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chargedesk-webhooks-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/chargedesk-capability-edges.yml
  name: ChargeDesk Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/chargedesk-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/chargedesk-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/chargedesk-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/chargedesk-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://chargedesk.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://chargedesk.com/api-docs
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/ChargeDesk
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chargedesk
- type: Blog
  url: https://chargedesk.com/help/general/whats-new
- type: Pricing
  url: https://chargedesk.com/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.chargedesk.com/
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/chargedesk
- type: Plans
  url: plans/chargedesk-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/chargedesk-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/chargedesk-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

ChargeDesk API — frequently asked questions

Does ChargeDesk have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 7 APIs from ChargeDesk, including ChargeDesk REST API, ChargeDesk Charges API and ChargeDesk Customers API, and 4 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the ChargeDesk API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for ChargeDesk, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the ChargeDesk API?

ChargeDesk uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Chargedesk Authentication.

How much does the ChargeDesk API cost?

APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for ChargeDesk, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the ChargeDesk API ready for AI agents?

ChargeDesk has a Kin Score of 33.9 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 24.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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